Profile of webmaster Firebard

Profile

Name

Hideaki Matsunaga（松永英明） aka. Firebard

e-mail

firebard@twelve-girls-band.info

MSN Messenger

kotono8@hotmail.com

Stardisc BBS ID

松永英明

Birth

Feb. 1969 - Pisces - Nara Prefecture, Japan.

Present Address

Tokyo, Japan.

Occupation

A free-lance writer, author and editor. write about Internet, history, businness, health, self-development and so on. And also a website management advisor about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web marketing.

other website

Weblog Kotonoha http://kotonoha.main.jp/ and others (all in Japanese Language). I manage my site for oneself (of course many people help me).

Favorite Musicians

12 Girls Band, Enya, KiLA, Irish Trad, Chinese Trad, China Dolls, Smetana, Dvorzak, Haendel, Led Zeppelin, Europe, Blind Guardian, and many Japanese musicians include indie groups such as "the sad sad planet".

Favorite Foods and Drinks

Soymilk and soybean curd. Croquette. Watermelon juice in South China and Taiwan. I prefer to cook for someone rather than eats for myself.

Favorite Authors and Books

Bakin Takizawa, Rohan Kouda, Kyouka Izumi (the above are Japanese Authors). Shuihu-zhuan (Water Margin), Sanguo-zi (Three Countries History), Xiyou-ji (Journey to the West) (the above are Chinese romance). Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, J.R.R. Tolkien.

Interested in

Fengshui and onomancy

Works

Sleeve-note of 12 Girls Band "Eastern Energy"

Aug. 17 2004. I wrote the description of all songs in Eastern Energy in Japanese language (not in English), thanks to translator.

「意志」と「人生」の法則

Ishi-to Jinsei-no Housoku (The Law of Will and Life), March 2004. Translation of "Light on Life's Difficulties" by James Allen.

「思考」が運命を変える

Shikou-ga Unmei-wo kaeru (Your Thought changens your Life), Apr. 2004. Translation of "The Mastery of Desteny" by James Allen.

最高にすてきな人生

Saikou-ni Suteki-na Jinsei (Most superb Life), May 2004. Translation of "The Heavenly Life" by James Allen.

幸せと成功への扉

Shiawase-to Seikou-eno Tobira (The Door to Happiness and Success), June 2004. Translation of "Foundation Stones to happiness and success" by James Allen.

ウェブログ超入門！

Weblog Cho-Nyuumon (Super Introduction of Weblog), June 2004. How to start easily weblog, write articles and manage an weblog. Also contains the history of weblog and essays about the future of weblog.

はてなの本

Hatena-no Hon (The Book of Hatena), a joint work, Aug. 2004. Hatena Diary is a famous weblog hosting service in Japan. Hatena means 'Let me see' and Hatena mark means Question mark. I write how to manage web-diary, essays about community of Hatena users and interview to Jun-ya Kondo, the founder and engineer of Hatena.

ココログカタログ

Cocolog Catalogue, now writing. Cocolog is one of the most large weblog hosting service in Japan by @nifty.

and others...

I wrote articles for some mooks (magazine-book) such as "新撰組の謎を斬る" (The mistery of Shinsen-gumi, the security special police in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate), "みんなのブログ" (Blog for Everyone, I wrote about the introduction to start weblog). Also, I wrote some articles for some magazines such as "Yahoo! Internet Guide", "iNTERNET magazine" and so on.

In future I want to write...

the history of Japan and Tokyo, the book about Chinese instruments and musics, and of course, about 12 Girls Band.